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Tennessee's First African-American Civil War Volunteers 1863

Tennessee's First African-American Civil War Volunteers 1863 is a Tennessee historical marker in Gallatin, Sumner County.

Near sidewalk on south lawn of Sumner African-American Co. Courthouse, U.S. Hwy 25, Public Civil War Square, Gallatin, TN

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Among the first ex-slaves in the Union Army were 200 local volunteers who enlisted here on the Public Square in July, 1863. They became a part of the Thirteenth United States Colored Infantry at Nashville. Two months later the army recruited additional ex-slaves at Gallatin, Nashville, and Murfreesboro to form the Fourteenth Colored Infantry here.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1838 · Kentucky (T.G. Bradford, 1838) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1844 · Kentucky (H. S. Tanner, 1844) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1863 · Military Map of the States of Kentucky and Tennessee. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Kentucky And Tennessee (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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